Getting Let’s Encrypt Certificate using DNS-01 challenge with acme-dns-certbot-joohoi or acme.sh

Getting Let’s Encrypt Certificate using DNS-01 challenge with acme-dns-certbot-joohoi or acme.sh, in manual or automated way, using a cron job and/or DNS APIs, if available Read More …

Configuring OCSP Stapling for Let’s Encrypt in Nginx [New Question]

A quick question, answered on Heelpbook, about “Configuring OCSP Stapling for Let’s Encrypt in Nginx”, that helps checking the revocation status of a digital certificate issued by Let’s Encrypt, on Nginx. Read More …

Nginx – How to disable access (http and https) to a website using IP address [New Question]

A quick question, answered on Heelpbook, about how to “Disable access (http and https) to a website using IP address”, on Linux platforms using Nginx web/reverse proxy server . This will help forcing access to web sites and applications using only FQDNs. Read More …

413 Request Entity Too Large and PHP Execution Time

It can be found on standalone Apache/Nginx/IIS web server or while proxy-based solutions when Nginx acts as a front end server for Apache at back end server. In this guide, we will see how to fix this error “413 request entity is too large” in Apache as well as in Nginx, Microsoft IIS , and definitely in PHP as well. Read More …

Nginx – Password Protect Web Directories

Managers of web projects often need to protect their work one way or another. Often people ask how to password protect their website while it is still in development. On an Apache web server, it’s possible to password protect a directory using .htaccess and .htpasswd files. However, .htaccess files are not supported on Nginx. Read More …